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Re: [Karlnet] Re: Sector Antennas

To: blair@wmwisp.net, "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Re: Sector Antennas
From: "Caleb Carroll" <karlnet@pathcom.ca>
Reply-to: Karlnet Mailing List <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:31:25 -0600
List-post: <mailto:karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
The simple soloution is to use 1 radio per antenna.  You can't expect to split 
a TX signal to 2 antennas and not get nulls everywhere.  Think about throwing 2 
stones into a pond, the waves created by each stone are going to interact 
creating peaks & troughs (constructive & destructive interference points), now 
extend this idea into 3 dimensions and hopefully, you'll realize what you're 
doing wrong.

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On 2004-07-13 at 9:21 PM Blair Davis wrote:

>What I am trying to do is get 180-200 deg of coverage with H-pol.  The
>location is at a lake shore and I do not wish to waste power by
>radiating toward the water.
>
>I have a similar setup using V-pol 120 deg sectors at another location
>that works just fine.
>
>--
>Blair Davis
>West Michigan Wireless
>269-686-8648
>
>A Division of
>Camp Communication Services, INC
>
>
>>Of course you're going to have nulls!  All over the place too, not just
>the center.  That's a whacky setup you've got there... What are you trying
>to accomplish?
>>
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>>On 2004-07-13 at 6:23 AM Blair Davis wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I currently have 2 16db H-pol sectors each with 100 deg beamwidth.
>>>
>>>I have a splitter and have carefully made the cables from the splitter
>>>to the sectors exactly the same length.
>>>
>>>I placed the sectors at the exact same height and at an angle centerline
>>>to centerline of 100 deg with a separation of about 5inch.
>>>
>>>It seems to work, but I have some odd gaps in the coverage.  There seems
>>>to be a null about 10-15 deg wide in the middle of the 200 deg span....
>>>Also, the outer ends of the span have quite low gain.
>>>
>>>any ideas?  Anyone done this before?
>>>
>>>
>>>Of course you're going to have nulls!  All over the place too, not just
>the center.  That's a whacky setup you've got there... What are you trying
>to accomplish?
>>
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>>On 2004-07-13 at 6:23 AM Blair Davis wrote:
>>
>>>I currently have 2 16db H-pol sectors each with 100 deg beamwidth.
>>>
>>>I have a splitter and have carefully made the cables from the splitter
>>>to the sectors exactly the same length.
>>>
>>>I placed the sectors at the exact same height and at an angle centerline
>>>to centerline of 100 deg with a separation of about 5inch.
>>>
>>>It seems to work, but I have some odd gaps in the coverage.  There seems
>>>to be a null about 10-15 deg wide in the middle of the 200 deg span....
>>>Also, the outer ends of the span have quite low gain.
>>>
>>>any ideas?  Anyone done this before?
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Blair Davis
>>>West Michigan Wireless
>>>269-686-8648
>>>
>>>A Division of
>>>Camp Communication Services, INC
>>>
>>>
>>>_______________________________________
>>>
>>>_______________________________________
>>
>
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